05
Feb

All geeks love line numbers… you can even add line numbers in your Word 2007 documents with just a few steps.

Open your Word 2007 document and click the Page Layout tab on the ribbon. Click on Line Numbers and then Line Numbering Options…
You will now get The Page Setup dialog window. At the bottom of the page click on Line Numbers.
In the Line Numbers dialog box place a check in the Add line numbering box. Here you can select spacing between the text and line numbers what number to start at and the counting sequence. When you’re done choosing your settings click OK. Then Click OK again in the Page Setup dialog window.
That’s it! You now have numbering added to the margins in your document.

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04
Feb

The next wave of Microsoft Surface multi-touch systems — known officially as the Samsung SUR40 — will be a key part of Microsoft’s National Retail Federation (NRF) showcase in mid-January 2012.

The so-called “Surface 2.0″ devices got their official debut at the Consumer Electronics Show a year ago, in January 2011, and originally were supposed to ship before the end of calendar 2011. Late last year, Samsung officials told me the SUR40 systems wouldn’t begin shipping until January 2012. (It’s not clear whether NRF, which kicks off on January 16, 2012, in New York City, will coincide with the start of the shipments from Samsung.)

Microsoft announced in mid-November that Samsung had begun taking pre-orders for the SUR40, which will ultimately ship in 23 countries. They also acknowledged the list price was $8,900. Earlier this year, Microsoft and Samsung had said to expect the system to be priced around $7,600.

The SUR40 can be used as a table, a wall-mountable and/or vertical/horizontal kiosk. It features a 40-inch HD 1080p screen and is four inches thin (including the glass, PC and enclosure). The system runs an embedded version of 64-bit Windows 7 Professional. Microsoft introduced a software-development kit for the Surface 2.0 in July 2011. The SUR40 relies on PixelSense — which uses the pixels of the screen itself to act as cameras to capture objects placed on the surface.

Microsoft officials have been touting the potential appeal of the Surface 2.0, alongside the Xbox and Kinect, in healthcare, retail, and other verticals.

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03
Feb

I don’t like Microsoft’s new search engine of a domain name

Bing. Com, is Microsoft is online search engine domain name, but I think this domain name some problems.

According to Chinese pinyin to read, this “bing” read “disease” is. Ha ha! I don’t know the first choice of the Microsoft has no domain name consider hundreds of millions of Chinese Internet users feel.

Search engine will become the hot spot of the Internet forever, this also is Microsoft introduced the bing one important reason. But if every Chinese in the future “find information, first find bing” if, how many feel some at odds. For me, I will still support goods-” baidu “.

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02
Feb

10, WindowsXP conference

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, New York, the shock of the global “9.11 events” has become Microsoft in the heart of a pain, Microsoft was scheduled in the October in New York held WindowsXP conference of high-profile was forced to change to a simple party.

9, the twenty-first century downturn share price

In December 1999, Microsoft’s share price is reached when the stock $58 of success, but a year later, it drop to $21 per share or so, and since then has been at that level wandering, it makes the industry doubt whether Microsoft still has sustainable growth of the enterprise, whether still have the ability to deal with apple and Google’s challenge.

8, miss out on YouTube

In Google $1.6 billion acquisition of YouTube six months ago, Microsoft had opportunity to $500 million acquisition of YouTube, but Microsoft missed the good opportunity.

7, LinusTorvalds development Linux

Linux founder LinusTorvalds in 1991 developed a Linux kernel to open the new chapter of the open source software, this let Microsoft sales by a shock, and the power of the Microsoft organization also greatly increased, Europe’s open source software giants are also always through the eu to Microsoft bring a series of problems, including antitrust investigation.

6, apple MacOSX became strong enough

In 2001, apple launched MacOSX and iPod, first retail to start its business, these three things for apple brand reputation, and the operating system and the media player industries gradually boomed.

5, WindowsVista

WindowsVista started early development, but Microsoft to finally gave up before the function of many promises, and released in after there appear a large number of hardware and software are not compatible with problems, this to Microsoft Windows brand with great negative impact.

4, Google operating system

Google’s success and not only because it advanced search engine algorithm, more benefit from its online advertising model got and recognized by the market and industry analysis, this model demonstrates how to get through the network of the real profits. Google platform and Windows rather similar, API, developer team and the third party support, for Microsoft’s from it, because Google is not just a search engine.

3, U.S. financial crisis

Since September 2008 Microsoft software sales fallen dramatically, the nature is by America’s financial crisis affect, the fourth quarter Microsoft profits down 13% while Microsoft adopted a series of measures such as job cuts, but according to market analysis, Microsoft’s software sales fall last year in 2009.

2, the United States government against

Began in May 1998 to Microsoft antitrust trial wound from the is quite deep, the case until November 2002, and raises similar other 100 suits, and the American government’s behavior also influence Europe, the European Union since 2004 have been looking for Microsoft’s trouble.

1, the world wide web

In 1990, “the world wide Web” father of development of the global TimBerners-Lee first Web server, 1994, Netscape (Netscape) issued the first commercial browser, let Microsoft regret that TimBerners-Lee adopted an open Internet standards, so Microsoft can’t get control of Internet standards, the rapid development of the Internet makes information exchange and a lot of software development, computer multitasking operating system no longer rely on this in a way the importance of reduces the Windows.

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29
Jan

A car industry’s top said, “the future of the car, IT is the platform platform”, this sentence was a lot of media as from the title of the done, however, and not many people think IT will soon become a reality.

April 2009 Shanghai auto show, when people appreciate the countless good car current car, suddenly discovered, these steel manufacturing 4 transport, mostly with the new equipment. Peremptory such as oz tin man loaded on the brain, the car also began on the equipment to intelligent new use-and these, mostly based on IT technology.

From everyone no longer novel on-board MP3, GPS, big screen DVD, in recent years is more novice to reverse the radar, all that showed IT technology to automobile industry has brought fresh blood and vitality.

And in 2009 motor show, make a person surprizing is, car manufacturers started “car dialogue” to try. The new IT technology application, more intelligent and kind in his seat. More let a person feel inspired, is that the application is no longer a concept, also is not simple to a computer “set into” cars, but really for drivers consider the functional sex of the application. And these phenomena is corroborated the fact: the Office 2010 IT industry has fought a car as the new battleground.

Take the ford motor company Shanghai international auto show is on display at the SYNC, this kind of appeared for the first time Asia the show’s behind products, stood with Microsoft this IT giants, and IT shows the auto giant and IT giant big mergers charm is obvious.

You gently only a bit, cell phone text message received new can read it; Quote us the name of the song, your digital player or USB storage of the music began to ring in the car; Say the name of the contact person, connected to cell phone bluetooth began to automatic dial-up…… Ford SYNC is simply a qualified vice driving, you only need to move, and his hand was used to concentrate on driving. Such application safeguarded the traffic safety, again don’t worry overwhelmed with small accident. Ford motor company in tests found that people with common mp3 if when driving about choosing songs 25 seconds eyes cannot see pavement, and use the SYNC only 2 seconds.

Of course, ford cars this equipment, is not a simple speech recognition tools, whether ford or Microsoft, and it didn’t look so simple.

In fact, the first generation ford SYNC 2007 years in north American international auto show appear, at the time, the function without strong now. Later, ford should be market needs, quickly in SYNC increased in the vehicle health test and automatic through to the emergency call functions. And in 2009, the latest SYNC is integrated traffic monitoring, navigation and communications functions such as breath, for drivers drive all the way to connect the information.

This let ford SYNC market in 2008, three months after that made 30000 sets sales results, become the contemporary auto industry the most rapid growth of one of the new products. It makes people believe that they pursue in the car is not only the often original, but technology offer quality life.

If you can have a chance to learn about Microsoft for ford motor custom this product detailed process, or even just look at Microsoft based on the car IT system platform, also can do anything, you will feel excited. At the same time, you will smell the smell of smoke, because the car industry is already IT technology new battlefield, has the strength of the vehicle-mounted system play IT enterprise, back in each car will not capacious space, to this TDD.

The future will have transformers of car appear in the life, rather than a dream. Because IT brings the car, will be a impossible to predict the new world.

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28
Jan

Microsoft released yesterday in China new office2010, this is the most important Microsoft office software innovations. Face the Google online office software returned fire, and Microsoft first change sales model, launched online web version of the software, and can use to pay a monthly fee model. Meanwhile, Microsoft also pay attention to the IT industry to the transformation of the mobile Internet, releasing version of office phone.
Comment on: the fierce market competition, forced the former software giant correspondingly change their own sales model, this is a kind of progress.

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24
Jan

Microsoft Kin phone series launched in six weeks because of poor sales or suspend sales. The news says Microsoft then alone will not launch Kin Phone, and will focus on development Windows Phone products. Microsoft Kin phone to the research and development of product of invest a lot of money, but the company has launched a few weeks after the product has failed. Analysts say the product pricing is a very important reason. Kin phone monthly pricing and other smart phones similar, but Kin smartphones, did not have the same function.

Comment on: maybe the pricing and promotion of reason, Kin product itself is also less attractive?

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23
Jan

How Microsoft plans to make money from Skype is a question many have asked since Microsoft announced intentions back in May 2011 to buy the VOIP vendor for $8.5 billion.<br>
Microsoft execs themselves have been pondering the issue, too, though they’ve given few concrete clues about their intentions.<br>
On December 6, however, Charles Songhurst, General Manager, Corporate Strategy (and the guy who supports Microsoft top brass in analyzing large merger and acquisition transactions, noted during a Q&amp;A session at the NASDAQ OMX Investor Program event in London, did provide a bit of guidance.<br>
Core video chat technology between individual consumers will likely remain free, Songhurst indicated. But some of the Skype video technologies with more corporate appeal — say, capabilities like archiving and authentication — may not.<br>
Here’s a transcript of Songhurst’s answer to an attendee’s question about Microsoft’s Skype strategy, going forward:<br>
“E-mail is a good analogy to the video business. So, if you look at the e-mail industry, the consumer e-mail business has always been one where the core products are given away for free. So, you look at Hotmail and its competitors like Yahoo and Gmail, and then you look at the business side of e-mail. You look at Outlook and you look at its competitors. That’s always been a very good and very profitable business for Microsoft.<br>
“You’re going to see the same dynamic in video where consumer video conversations have the same dynamic as consumer e-mail.  It’s a product that is free, and it’s likely to stay free. In the enterprise you’ve got a very compelling opportunity around archiving and authentication. There’s a stat that’s approximately 29 percent of Fortune 500 employees use Skype without it being installed from their CIO. So, if you think about giving the CIO the ability to archive those conversations, to authenticate them, to have the same controls over that conversation that they do over their e-mail, that the employees have, you’d have a very compelling proposition.”<br>
(Songhurst, by the way, is considered to have been CEO Steve Ballmer’s right-hand man in the Skype acquisition.)<br>
Microsoft execs have said they plan to integrate Skype throughout Microsoft’s product line — everywhere from Hotmail and Xbox, to the company’s Lync unified communications server/service and Windows Phone. (A Windows Phone Skype client was on Microsoft’s 2011 delivery list, but still has yet to materialize. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this pushed back to 2012.)<br>
One other interesting tidbit from the transcript of Songhurst’s December 6 remarks: Even Microsoft’s highest-ranking and most influential execs are forbidden from saying almost anything about Windows 8. They can’t even restate or refine Windows 8 information that’s already been shared by the Windows client team.<br>
Songhurst told attendees that Windows 8 was the topic he could say the least about “because we’re very careful in what we say about Windows 8.”<br>
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21
Jan

Recently saw a technology website interview to a Microsoft program manager John Hrvatin IE the news. John is the development department senior figures IE, from his mouth got some about IE 9 to the latest news:

Question 1: IE 9 beta download have accumulated more than 13 million times, this is Microsoft history a biggest test. From the test, the development team won the feedback information which is worth using for reference?

John: we thank you very much for millions of users use IE 9 beta, to date, IE 9 beta feedback column received 13000 recommendations, IE TestDrive page nearly 37 million page views. Users care most or use the experience, the developers of the most care about is how to make their web site with IE 9 compatible

Question 2: IE 9 PPV6 platform preview version has been preaching is finally a preview version, but we still see a IE 9 PPV7 release, so now IE 9 development has entered the stage of what?

John: because the product research and development is in a constant state of change, we can’t quite sure how many version, the basis of all is to make better products. We now have begun r&d IE 9 RC.

Question 3: IE 9 whether also can appear some amazing function?

John: every preview and test version of the collection to the views of the us will be careful analysis, such as we in the PPV6 added CSS 3 2 D transfer performance.

Question 4: the latest W3C test shows, IE 9 meta are the most outstanding performance, this reflects IE 9 support modern Web standard research and development objective. In the next RTW, IE9 will continue this tradition is, or in IE 9. X to overtake?

John: yes, we are very pleased to see IE 9 have made such results, support more rich and powerful Web page function, is to grasp the user an important safeguard. IE 9 would have been compatibility, stability work hard.

Question 5: you think IE 9 in hardware acceleration with other browsers have any different?

John: IE 9 use hardware acceleration, it can make the Web more localization, not only will the Web application limit in a framework, IE 9 can let Web applications get similar to Windows desktop programs use the experience.

Question 6: rumours suggest IE 9 will be bound with Window SP1 release, your response?

John: once again, IE9 r&d date paying attention only to the improvement of the performance, not to cooperate with other products and destroy established released plans. Moreover, Window 7 user can use IE 8, IE 8’s security is reliable.

From Microsoft’s response, it is not difficult to see to the prospect of Microsoft IE9 confident and give away to the ascension of Microsoft IE9 performance is more devoted a great deal of effort, estimates that by early next year, the new IE age will make you shine at the moment of ~

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17
Jan

Nokia and Microsoft’s joint, there are many people who chaffed them products brand should call “Nokisoft” or “Microkia”, actually any name, if they can’t in the end product design, user experience and resources integration chain on continued to improve, so is likely to turn into the No Win (No)”

In smart phones of the fast development of mobile Internet times, nokia is suffering from an unprecedented challenges, the current sales’s largest mobile phone brand market share is being nibbled fast, since February this year, and its shares have fallen 26%. No matter be “own son” saiban (Symbian), or with Intel’s “illegitimate” MeeGo all save the slide the nokia Symbian has already become the pronoun of ZhongDiDuan mobile phone operating system, and the terminal type always in MeeGo “has been exposure, never published” situation.

In consciousness to the future after the importance of mobile Internet, 11 February 2011, nokia officially announced and Microsoft found a broad strategic cooperation relations, the future will put Windows Phone as a smartphone of the main operation system, and participating in the development. Obviously, that Microsoft is also a chance to break through the bottleneck. Earlier PPC2002 to Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1, 6.5 are for users, all of these are but will Windows desktop system do some changes, then applied to Mobile phones, far from what window. Until 2010 the WP7 launch, to let the industry saw a glimmer of hope. To Microsoft for, hao throw 1 billion dollars in hand nokia will have a broader market space, also be quick save market share the important means. The problem is, the declining aristocracy marriage, will have a new miracle?

Win-win or double lose, strategic decision to everything

In fact this pile “marriage” from the start, the underdog, with staff street protests parade, stocks tumbled and media bad-mouthing sound one, nokia and Microsoft still strong to stride, but apple and Google compared, they always seem to fit with the the trend of The Times, a mobile phone big alligator and a PC software giant in the wave of mobile Internet, be renewed plate thegoal impact, this is exactly what causes?

February 2011 in Barcelona, Spain at the world’s mobile communications conference is over, with “a dream come true” as the theme of the conference that all visitors stood in the mobile communication technology yet. Whether the meeting of the four new Facebook show of mobile phone, or the mobile phone giant new applications, and even China dominated the next generation of mobile communications technology TD-LTE, demonstrates the point: the world changed. Mobile Internet age is rapidly subversion each person’s life, understanding and sharing information at any time and place, processing business documents, enjoy video games and entertainment is the future of key industries. Today’s industry hit a purple patch of Google and apple in this trend is grasp, and in the hands of the ShangFangBaoJian they hold is “Android” and “iPhone/iPad + AppStore”.

Microsoft in PC field has been a group for many years, but in the mobile Internet age was aware of their strategic out the problem. WP7 launch of the so-called shadowfax so far there have been three or four months, but so far without a mature mobile phone in China market, more seriously, the mobile phone brand for WP7 is still change their minds. Smart phone market in the United States, a quarter past Android market share continue to rise, to 32%, and only 8% share of WP7 not only, and still continue to fall 2%. Obviously, samsung, and MOTOROLA are all Android platform taste blood, the vice President of MOTOROLA Christian even claims that will completely absorbed in Android, SONY Ericsson WP7 are beginning to lose my confidence. Nokia has already become Microsoft’s the last straw.

In fact, Microsoft and nokia today is not only the bottleneck facing our product, the more the key is in getting their industrial chain powerful support, resource integration very passive. In the mobile Internet industry chain, “end products-operating system-application software” is the core of the chain. At present, the application software developers in the apple and Android on the platform of the busy trying, it is not possible Microsoft WP7, because the developers spent time to study a no sales, and can’t be compatible with old version before the WP7, apparently not reality. No wonder that Google engineering vice President gondor trafford in poking fun “micro’s marriage” think: two turkeys can’t the eagle, this even “shear copy” function are not operating system clearly not the industry was valued by. In addition, the location is also WP7 pour own a stone, Microsoft for WP7 hardware and software configuration request high, almost all need 1 GHz processor of the above, it results in the high-end market by WP7 will apple cisco iOS sniper, GaoBuCheng low not.

Innovation cooperation “GongXinWeiShang”

In the mobile Internet industry chain, any role can’t escape from the chain and independent existence, but need more extensive cooperation and extension, such as Google began to launch its own brand mobile phones, China mobile is to create your web portal and application store, mobile phone began to implant making friends, such as community map key application and so on. Apple iPhone and not only because products do well succeed, if not AppStore more than 300000 applications, so apple fans will not so much, so true. On the other hand Microsoft Windows Phone number of applications have only poor 8000. Google’s Android is not only because of the open source and free for today’s achievement, more key is Android is big enough to open, allowing users to have more freedom to customize system, and have a more excellent end products are available: HTC, MOTOROLA, dell and touch screen phone does not as inferior as large in the iPhone. Google has even launched App Inventor, can let no development experience of users DIY own Android program. This kind of industry chain completely open strategy and a deep understanding of the user experience, it is today the leading reason Android absolute. So, how to correctly deal with mobile Internet market challenges?

The end product innovation. Apple fans will because iPhone AppStore while fans, but nokia users are not necessarily because nokia mobile phones and falling in love with Ovi Store WP7 or, it shows that the end product design is an important link, but the pity is nokia this once tidal current mobile phone giant, in recent years in product innovation is known after after sleep, from music cell phone, the blackberry style to high-end commercial airplanes, touch screen is the slow people a beat. It also led to a nokia smartphone market share in the four consecutive years has declined, the intelligent products in high end competitiveness is insufficient, ZhongDiDuan product innovation speed and slow, “” can’t afford than apple, samsung and HTC,” “can’t afford than many domestic brand and product fortress, now only by its product quality stands up to the most rigorous test and supported earnestly. “Resistance to fall off, save electricity, and easy” these elements are not the selling point of the mobile phone, group after group of nokia fans have abandoned the nokia, nokia mobile phones that not only in appearance design is behind, in the product application has also can’t meet the demand of the market, in this respect saiban (Symbian) system obviously serious to drag the hind leg of nokia, in the face of popular among the rich have no culture, use nokia “badinage, nokia and no rapid response.

The user experience. In fact, the decision of the user experience and is not a product of the hardware, but software, namely cell phone operation is humanity, whether can be personalized customize, are there many amazing application functions, entertainment business whether can two not mistake and very comfortable with it. In the United States famous IT magazine “eWeek” chosen by the failure of the 2010 years of ten of the science and technology products, Symbian mobile phone operating system the highest impressively, this from a side, see that 2010 is the rapid decline of the nokia a year. In addition to lay-offs, high-rise change besides, nokia’s new sales not good, saiban foundation shut, flagship model listed delay proved the importance of the operating system, which is also would later and Microsoft win-win team reasons. Android open source characteristics of the system, make any structure, any form of development have play of leeway, this obviously attracted more developers and mobile phone manufacturer cooperation with it, in the main screen, Android advocate the idea of “users can do want to do everything,” in the text input, Android system allows users to customise customize keyboard. WP7 to through the nokia to try and win, it must be in more detail fluctuation kongfu, for example, need not unlock can see marked text messages, schedule or email to, can let users in under unified style personalized Settings, and so on, these subtle precisely for the affections of the key.

Industrial chain the extensive cooperation. For the present, telecom operators, program developers, terminal manufacturers and users are very much looking forward to more humanistic products emerging, it refers not only to the terminal equipment itself, including the good experience of application software and user support, personalized service and so on, such as the network shopping (including bulk order), location based mobile social networking (such as the hottest FourSquare), mobile phone search, mobile phone, online game, wallet audio-visual products to buy, mobile marketing, mobile phone micro bo. These applications require companies to have the industrial chain of resource integration ability, can create a user through mastery of screaming experience, if developers can’t deep understanding to iPhone, so such as “virtual beer”, “mobile phone piano”, “the finger treadmill” such classic won’t be so popular. As lotte market by wireless pay became the largest Japanese network mall, China mobile is strive to create social networking site 139 com, and instant messaging software fly letters and program stores MM, this explains in the mobile Internet industry chain, “killer” application is very key elements, as long as find the ammunition, can say any enterprise to be able to come.

Nokia and Microsoft’s joint, there are many people who chaffed them products brand should call “Nokisoft” or “Microkia”, actually any name, if they can’t in the end product design, user experience and resources integration chain on continued to improve, so is likely to turn into the No Win (No) “. Mobile Internet industry is a changeable very rapid industry, is also a miracle to the industry was born, as long as the strategy is proper, the user’s mind touch enough to connect fully, so anything is possible.

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